Top Note box

I had a lovely day yesterday, I drove all the way to Nottinghamshire to join Victoria and her team for a training day on workshops.  I learned a lot, so watch this space. I met some lovely ladies, thank you all for the swaps and thank you Nicola for the lovely chocolate cake, it was huge and delicous, lactose and soya free and I'm sure she said calorie free, but maybe that was wishful thinking. 
One of the things we learned, demonstrated by the lovely Tracy,  was this great little box made using the top note die.

This is easy to make and makes a lovely little gift box, we used the Fun flower die on the top and embossed one of the layers to add some texture. I love this die, my wish list just gets longer!  We used the springtime vintage designer papers which I love and it co-ordinates perfectly with the rose red and crumb cake card. If you would like to learn how to make this box why not book a workshop and I will demonstrate it for you.

Kimono Kids

I bought the Kimono Kids stamp set as I thought my daughters would like it, (which they do) but I love it. I stamped quite a few images on whisper white, used the stamp-a-ma-jig to line them up then when I went to mini monsters (soft play for the kids) I took them with me, along with my markers and sat colouring whilst the girls played,very relaxing. I now have a batch of kimono kids to make into cards.
Here's a couple of cards I made, sorry I can't remember all the colours I got carried away!

On the first card I used the latice square embossing folder to emboss some of the real red card, it gives it a lovely thick texture, I borrowed the folder from Claire my lovelystampin' up  up-line but I have added it to my ever growing wish list. I used the scallop edge punch to make some borders with the basic black card as I thought this was a very oriental combination.
On the second card I used tempting turqoise and some real red designer series paper from the Brights DSP collection. Sorry I have just realised a lantern was missing when I took the photo - it is back on now, promise!